Telling Tesla drivers its Autopilot feature doesnt mean their cars can drive themselves may not be enough to keep Elon Musk off the hot seat if the technology comes up short.
Three family-owned Volkswagen franchise dealers accused the carmaker of fraud for installing pollution-control cheating devices in diesel vehicles and sticking them with continuing losses by failing to fix the problem.
General Motors Co. won a partial victory in its second trial over faulty ignition switches as a judge threw out a key fraud claim against the automaker.
Volkswagen AG will probably miss a Thursday court deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement with U.S. authorities over its tainted diesel engines, possibly exposing the carmaker to daily fines and other sanctions.
GM, which faces at least 16 trials on death and injury claims in state and federal courts in the U.S. in 2016, has said in regulatory filings that it couldnt estimate its potential liability.
The U.S. Justice Department sued Volkswagen and laid out claims that could push penalties into the billions of dollars an opening salvo in a legal battle that could be far more costly for the German carmaker than had been expected.